"no one more sincerely wishes the spread..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.
More by Thomas Jefferson
“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”
“Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.”
“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.”
More on Information
“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.”
“There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.”
“Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.”
More on Government
“The first mistake in public business is the going into it.”
“Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.”
“f you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals - if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”